Philip physick peace



(No Model.)

P. P. PEAGE.

BIUYGLE SUPPORT.

No. 577,663. Patentedreb. 23, 1897.

Ilnurnn Srarns PHILIP PHYSIOK PEACE, OF PEYEF. VALLEY, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO MATTIE S. HOUSTON.

BICYCLE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,663, dated February 23, 1897.

Application niet December 18,1896. semaine. 616,118. (No model.)

To .a1/ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, PHILIP PHYsIoK PEACE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pewee Valley, county of Oldham, State of Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bicycle-Supports; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication.

This invention relates to bicycle-supports, and has for its object an improved form of framed support which is adapted to be folded down into compact form for storage or transportation or turned so as to have the standard (which is used as the support for bicycles) in a vertical position, or at right angles to the base, and so that the standard shall be firmly supported in its vertical position without the use of braces or hooks, or any supplemental device.

In the drawings, Figure l shows the support in perspective. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the standard and shows the square tenon which serves to hold the standard vertically. Fig. 3 shows the supportfolded.

The base is made of two side pieces A and B, held together by suitable cross-bars ct and b. In each of the side pieces A and B is a gain c, that extends from about the middle of the piece A toward one end and terminates before reaching the end. At the starting end of this gain, at the middle of the piece A, there is a mortise CZ, that lies below the main part of the gain c, and this mortise d is provided with side walls that are substantially at right angles with the long axis of the piece A.

The standard D is a framework composed of upper and lower cross-bars e c', joined by vertical bars f, that are spaced suiiiciently to allow the bicycle-wheel to be run between two adjacent bars.

On the ends of the lower cross-bar e are tenons c2, shaped to conform to the mortise d, and these tenons extend from the ends of the cross-bar e and are adapted to engage in the mortise d and the gain c. At the point of the turn between the gain c and the mortise d the mortise is enlarged, so that the tenon e2 can be turned on its axis, and the two parts of the support (the bars and the upright) can be folded together, so that their long axes lie parallel, and when so folded the upright can slide along the gain c until the upright is entirely received between the sides of the base. In this condition the device can be stored or shipped conveniently. i

This device requires no skill in changing it from its knockdown form to the form in which it is adapted to be used for bicyclesupports, and it can be changed from one condition to the other very easily and quickly.

In a bicycle-standard, the combination of a base provided with a vertically-disposed mortise and a horizontally-disposed gain, a standard having cross -bars provided with tenons adapted to engage in the said vertically-disposed mortise and to slide along the said gains, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of -two witnesses.

PHILIP PIIYSIOK PEACE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT C. KINKEAD, PENDLETON C. BERKLEY. 

